Talk:Vs. Lakitu Launch

Merge Lakitu Launch with Vs. Lakitu Launch

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vetoed by the administrators
Per request from author to cancel and re-propose on the main Proposal page, this naturally has to be canceled as it'd be redundant to that version.
Both minigames are identical with gameplay, the only difference is number of players. Danger, Bob-omb! Danger! and Run, Bob-omb, Run! have the same article despite different names.

Proposer: Remembered Old Buddy (talk)
Deadline: August 30, 2026, 23:59 (UTC) Vetoed on August 22, 2026, 05:24 (UTC)

Merge

1. Remembered Old Buddy (talk) Per proposal.
2. Vs. Yoshi18 (talk) Per proposal, mainly due to the fact that this already applies to another article.
3. Iand255 (multiplayer) (talk) Per proposal. I support this merge for all the rest of the minigames in this situation as well.

Comments

@Remembered Old Buddy I would support a merge, but only if the others are as well. There are many more minigames that fit your criteria for merging, so I don't see why only this should be merged. If you want to expand the scope of this proposal to cover all of them, you should make it a regular, non-talk page proposal. I... am R.O.B. FIGHT TO DEATH! 15:32, August 17, 2026 (UTC)

I agree here; this should definitely be expanded in scope. IanD255 (talk 06:53, August 18, 2026 (UTC)

Is it Vs. Mario's Slides, Vs. Trampoline Time and Vs. Pair-a-Gone that fit the criteria? Remembered Old Buddy 02:52, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

Yes. They are basically the same as the original but with a competitive twist, equivalent to Vs. Lakitu Launch. I... am R.O.B. FIGHT TO DEATH! 17:24, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

Should Jumping Brothers and Bounce and Trounce alongside Bob-omb Sudden Death and Sort or 'Splode be merged too? Remembered Old Buddy 19:08, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

Yes. I... am R.O.B. FIGHT TO DEATH! 22:29, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

@Remembered Old Buddy If Vs. Lakitu Launch gets merged, then shouldn't Lakitu Launch (multiplayer) get merged as well? Yoshi18 (talk | contribs) 10:50, August 18, 2026 (UTC)

Why? I don't see the correlation. Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 15:28, August 18, 2026 (UTC)

It may not play the exact same as Lakitu Launch and Vs. Lakitu Launch but it's still a version of Lakitu Launch. If Vs. Lakitu Launch (a multiplayer version of Lakitu Launch that's the same as the original) gets merged, then Lakitu Launch (multiplayer) (a version of Lakitu Launch that's a bit different from the original) should as well. Yoshi18 (talk | contribs) 15:39, August 18, 2026 (UTC)

"If we're merging this thing that's similar then we also need to merge that thing that's not similar"? What? Isn't that backwards from how comparison arguments normally work? Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 15:48, August 18, 2026 (UTC)

@Yoshi18 Lakitu Launch and Vs. Lakitu Launch are literally identical apart from the number of players. They play exactly the same. The other Lakitu Launch is a completely different mini-game. It shouldn't be merged with the other Lakitu Launch just because they share the same name, the very basic gameplay mechanic of launching things with the stylus, and the fact they're both based around Lakitu. Realistically, merging those two would be as much of a stretch as merging Super Mario Bros. and the Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch because they share the same name, are both platformers, and are both about saving the same princess. IanD255 (talk 02:27, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

To be honest, that's fair yeah. Maybe I was a bit too presumptuous that if one multiplayer variant gets merged, then the other should too. Yoshi18 (talk | contribs) 15:22, August 19, 2026 (UTC)

All good, it happens. IanD255 (talk 07:16, August 20, 2026 (UTC)

Letting the record show, we were asked about potentially rewriting and moving this proposal to include these other minigames, and we've given them the okay to do that. Thusly, we're canceling this one. Said exchange happened on our own talk page (to future-proof: if it's not on the page itself, you're probably looking for Archive 2.) ;P ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 05:24, August 22, 2026 (UTC)